The Regional State Archives in Bergen

Statsarkivet i Bergen, desember 2012. Foto: Tom Myrvold

The Regional State Archives in Bergen is a part of the National Archives of Norway, covering the district of Hordaland and Sogn and Fjordane.

The Regional State Archives in Bergen is responsible for receiving and making accessible to the public archival materials from local and regional government administration within its geographical district. Moreover, the Regional State Archives in Bergen supervises the archival conditions in all local public administration bodies in the region. The Regional State Archives in Bergen also works to preserve private archives that are worthy of preservation. Thus, the archive acts both as an administrative body and as a science-based cultural heritage institution. The holdings of the Regional State Archives in Bergen fill some 16,000 shelf meters of repository space (2009).